Sentence examples for debilitating addiction from inspiring English sources

And as others have discovered, Wall Street is a tantalizing temptation before it becomes a debilitating addiction.

She is also among the latest to have apparently shed a debilitating addiction as lightly as she might have a few unwanted pounds.

For many it is just good fun, but for some it becomes a debilitating addiction which wrecks lives: they need bigger wins to satisfy their craving, and when forced to stop they suffer withdrawal symptoms.Henry Chase of the University of Nottingham and Luke Clark of the University of Cambridge, are interested in the cognitive complexities of gamblers.

This dependence turned into a debilitating addiction.

Quite clearly the influence of his debilitating addiction to cannabis use – perhaps a toxic hangover from his former life as a DJ – could well have played a major part in all this – though that can be no excuse.

Bynes has been sober for four years, after a debilitating addiction to pills that triggered several troubling public scenes and slashing Twitter comments.

Another is that he's been married to the same woman for four decades, despite a period of debilitating drug addiction.

He's also published a brilliant autobiography, Brothers Be Like Yo, George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?, and clean of a debilitating crack addiction, has entered into a protracted legal battle to regain the copyrights of his songs.

First, he built on his escalating war of words with new neighbour Jimmy Page by promising to dig a big hole in his garden and fill it "full of shit"; next he went about offending the Russian oligarchy with the deliberately tasteless comeback single Party Like a Russian; more recently he was found telling this newspaper about his dabblings with the occult and a debilitating Minstrels addiction.

If we accept that his actions were truly the result of a severely debilitating drug addiction, then it's possible that Anthony's moral compass was never really all that broken maybe he's just an example of what happens when a decent person falls prey to drugs.

Secondly, activity in the primary pathway may in turn desensitize the secondary craving-inhibiting pathways, thus debilitating the brain's natural defensive against addiction.